Through trial, error, YouTube deep dives and plenty of laughs, LIV Golf star Lucas Herbert and caddie Nick Pugh have crafted one of golf’s best partnerships.
Jared Van Snellenberg, once the bleached blond looper in “Happy Gilmore”, is now (fittingly) a psychiatry professor. He’s a living golf legend, one of the game’s great folk heroes. To golf fans, he might be more recognisable than some recent PGA Tour winners. And yet, he’s never even played a round of golf. It’s been Read more…
Measuring caddie credit in pro golf is a subjective exercise. Few moments are as clearcut as Steve Williams calling Tiger Woods off a bounced-in sand wedge from deep rough in favour of a risky, nuked and spinning lob wedge on the 72nd hole of the 2008 US Open, setting up the most momentous 12-footer ever. Usually, Read more…
We’ve thoroughly enjoyed all of the PGA Tour tales that Golf Twitter All-Star Michael Kim has shared with us this year. It’s the exact type of the behind-the-scenes content we all crave as golf sickos.
Next week’s PGA Tour stop, the WM Phoenix Open, is often referred to as “The Greatest Show on Grass”. However, there will be a pretty entertaining show among a different set of golfers on the Monday of the tournament.
On Sunday, the 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass is where fortunes are decided for the contenders at the Players Championship. On Wednesday, however, it’s also where their caddies hit their most important (read: only?) shot of the year.
It’s the first caddie recovery zone organised this PGA Tour season, but is a perk that is growing increasingly common on tour – with more planned in the coming months.
Today’s question relates to the PGA Tour’s planned return to competition in June, albeit without fans and with other restrictions in place to limit the risk of the coronavirus transmission.
Inside the caddie lounge at the Players Championship, across from the dining room, a printed sign on a small folding table blared a warning about the coronavirus.
For the third time in less than three months, there’s a huge player-caddie shake-up on the US PGA Tour. And this time, it involves a pair with a particularly close relationship.
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